Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD Mips/Octeon
Mark Moellering
markmoellering at psyberation.com
Thu Apr 9 20:06:42 UTC 2020
On 4/9/20 1:53 PM, Viktor Madarasz wrote:
>
> Hi Mark
>
> You did better results with an Edgerouter 4 with its stock Ubiquity OS
> or putting OpenBSD on that one as well?
>
> Viktor
Viktor,
I had better results when I put OpenBSD on it. I use it as my current
firewall. I don't have it hooked up to do a 'proper' speed test but I
get over 500M up and down from my ISP (I have fiber).
Mark
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Mark Moellering wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:01:04 -0400
>> From: Mark Moellering <markmoellering at psyberation.com>
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest
>> FreeBSD
>> Mips/Octeon
>>
>>
>> On 4/9/20 7:32 AM, Viktor Madarasz wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> i was looking at the page
>>>
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/mips/Octeon?action=show&redirect=FreeBSD%2Fmips%2FOcteon
>>>
>>> where amongst other things mentioned Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite as
>>> compatible and also that Gigabit speeds on Basic Packet passing
>>> should be OK.
>>>
>>> I started to look at classifieds and I see some devices available
>>> for grabs.
>>>
>>> However I came across this article where the user explains one of
>>> the drawbacks being not being able to push more than 250Mbit per
>>> second between two Gigabit Hosts. However that article was not made
>>> on the latest available build as far as I see...
>>>
>>> http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/
>>>
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> Anyone has experience with Edgerouter Lite and FreeBSD and can
>>> comment on the real time performance achieved?
>>>
>>> Perhaps one of the other mentioned HW would be more suitable to go
>>> for ( even if it seems difficult to even find any.. Lanner ,
>>> Portwell and Radisys devices )
>>>
>>> Perhaps going the x86 route and pick up some appliance from
>>> Aliexpress which should work as a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD
>>> router/firewall and achieve Gigabit speed on ports while passing
>>> packets easily/easier?
>>>
>>> f.e :
>>> https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32860646292.html?spm=2114.12057483.0.0.1f2b5af1TD1IWP
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Viktor
>>>
>>> viktormadarasz at sdf.org
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>>
>> I put OpenBSD on an EdgeRouter Lite and it didn't do so well. From
>> what I understand, there are linux kernel modules needed to get speed
>> out of the EdgeRouter Lite; In any case, I did not get a really good
>> throughput.? I got an EdgeRouter 4 and things worked much better.
>>
>> -- Mark
>>
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